The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.

Reach for the sky Keep your eye on the prize Forever in my mind Be my golden sunshine It's raining in your mind So push them clouds aside Forever by my side You're my golden sunshine

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

Our foibles, issues, lies, and idiosyncrasies are not the problem, I swear. Our hiding them is. It’s what leaves us not trusting each other and not developing ourselves to become trustworthy.

The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

You must hurt, or be hurt.

No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore